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State-enforced Racial Segregation — By Progressives

Christopher Rufo
October 19, 2020
State-sanctioned racial segregation ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but has recently returned in an unlikely place: government agencies in Seattle. According to new whistleblower documents I’ve reviewed, at least three public agencies in the region have implemented race-segregated diversity trainings. At the King County Library System, a private consulting firm called Racial Equity Consultants recently held racially segregated “listening sessions” to root out “institutional privileges and systemic inequities.” Apparently, there is widespread “institutional racism” in the libraries, and employees who reject that premise are accused of “internalized racism.” When reached by e-mail, the firm said it wasn’t authorized to comment. At the federal Veterans Administration Puget Sound facility, the local leadership has launched a series of racially Read More ›

Liberalism and Its Discontents

Christopher Rufo
October 14, 2020

Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On

Gale Pooley
October 13, 2020

Why Independents will Decide the November 3rd Election

Scott S. Powell
October 13, 2020

Lab Coat Tyranny

Christopher Rufo
October 9, 2020

The Truth About Critical Race Theory

Christopher Rufo
October 4, 2020

“Safe Injection Sites” Aren’t Safe, Effective or Wise. Just Ask Canadians

Christopher Rufo
October 2, 2020

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